Elisha (given name)
Appearance
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Pronunciation | Elisha |
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Gender | Unisex |
Language(s) | Hebrew |
Origin | |
Word/name | Hebrew |
Meaning | Salvation of God |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Eleisha, Eli, Elisee, Eliseo, Elisher, Eliso, and Lisha |
Nickname(s) | Lish, Lisha, Eli, Ellie |
Related names | Elishah |
Elisha is a prophet and a wonder-worker. Elisha mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Quran, and Baha'i writings.
Elisha in other languages
[edit]- Arabic: إليشا (Iilisha)
- Albanian: Elisha
- Amharic: ኢሊያሃ (īlīyaha)
- Armenian: էլիսա (Elisa)
- Azerbaijani: Elisha
- Bengali: আল-ইয়াসা (Āla-iẏāsā)
- Bulgarian: Елисей (Elïsey)
- Burmese: ။ လိရှဲ-. (lishell)
- Chinese Simplified: 伊丽莎 (Yī lì shā)
- Chinese Traditional: 伊麗莎 (Yī lì shā)
- Croatian: Elisha
- Czech: Elisha
- Danish: Elisha
- Dutch: Elisha
- English: Elisha
- Esperanto: Elisido
- Estonian: Elisha
- Filipino: Elisha
- Finnish: Elisa
- French: Elisha
- German: Elisha
- Greek: ελισα (Elisa)
- Gujarati: એલિશા (Ēliśā)
- Hebrew: אלישה
- Hindi: एलीशा (Eleesha)
- Hungarian: Elisha
- Icelandic: Elisha
- Indonesian: Elisa, Elisha, Ilyasa
- Irish: Elisha
- Italian: Elisha
- Japanese: エリシャ (Erisha)
- Javanese: Elisha
- Kannada: ಎಲಿಷಾ (Eliṣā)
- Kazakh: элиша
- Korean: 엘리사 (Ellisa)
- Kurdish: Elisha
- Lao: Elisha
- Latin: Eliseus
- Latvian: Elisha
- Lithuanian: Elisha
- Macedonian: елисеј (Elisej)
- Malagasy: Elisa
- Malay: Elisha, Ilyasa
- Malayalam: എലിഷ (Eliṣa)
- Marathi: अलीशा (aleesha)
- Mongolian: элиша
- Nepali: एलिशा (Ēliśā)
- Norwegian: Elisha
- Persian: الیزه
- Polish: Elisha
- Portuguese: Eliseu
- Punjabi: ਅਲੀਸ਼ਾ (Alīśā)
- Romanian: Elisha
- Russian: Елисей (Elïsey)
- Serbian: елисха (elisha)
- Slovenian: Elizej
- Spanish: Elíseo
- Sundanese: Elisha
- Swedish: Elisha
- Tajik: элиша
- Tamil: எலிஷா (Eliṣā)
- Telugu: ఎలీషా (Elīṣā)
- Thai: เอลีชา (Xelīchā)
- Turkish: Elisha
- Ukrainian: Єлисей (Yelysey)
- Urdu: الیشا
- Uzbek: Elisha
- Vietnamese: Elisha
- Welsh: Elisha
Other persons with the same given name include:
Actors
[edit]- Elisha Cook, Jr. (1903–1995), American actor
- Elisha Cuthbert (born 1982), Canadian actress
- Elisha Henig (born 2004), American actor
Business
[edit]- Elisha S. Converse (1820–1904), American businessman
- Elisha Peck (1789–1851), American businessman
- Elisha Wiesel (born 1972), American chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel
Inventors
[edit]- Elisha Gray (1835–1901), American electrical engineer considered by some to be the true inventor of the telephone
- Elisha Otis (1811–1861), American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of an elevator safety device
Politicians and lawyers
[edit]- Elisha Hunt Allen (1804–1883), American congressman, lawyer and diplomat, and Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court and diplomat for the Kingdom of Hawaii
- Elisha W. Baily (1821–1904), American politician and physician from Pennsylvania
- Elisha Baxter (1827-1899), tenth Governor of Arkansas
- Elisha Cooke, Sr. (1637–1715), physician, politician, and businessman, elected Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Elisha Cooke, Jr. (1678-1837), physician and politician from the Province of Massachusetts Bay; son of the above
- Elisha Dyer (1811-1890), American politician and 25th Governor of Rhode Island
- Elisha Dyer, Jr. (1839–1906), American politician and 45th Governor of Rhode Island; son of the above
- Elisha P. Ferry (1825–1895), twice Governor of the Washington Territory and the first Governor of the State of Washington
- Elisha Harris (1791-1861), 20th Governor of Rhode Island
- Elisha Lewis (died 1867), American politician
- Elisha Litchfield (1785-1859), American merchant and member of the US House of Representatives from New York
- Elisha Mathewson (1767–1853), US Senator from Rhode Island
- Elisha Payne (1731-1807), American businessman and politician
- Elisha McCallion (born 1982), Irish female Sinn Féin politician
- Elisha Marshall Pease (1812–1883), fifth and thirteenth Governor of Texas
- Elisha Reynolds Potter (1764–1835), Federalist Party US Congressman and Speaker in the Rhode Island State Assembly
- Elisha R. Potter (1811–1882), justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and member of the US House of Representatives; son of the above
- Elisha Williams (1694–1755), Congregational minister, legislator, jurist and rector of Yale College
Sports
[edit]- Eli Manning (born 1981), American former National Football League quarterback
- Elisha N'Dow (born 1996), English professional footballer
- Elisha Obed (1952–2018), Bahamian light middleweight boxer
- Elisha Scott (1893–1959), Irish association football goalkeeper
Other
[edit]- Elisha ben Abuyah (before 70–?), Jewish rabbi and religious authority
- Elisha (Nestorian patriarch), patriarch of the Church of the East from 524 to 537
- Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), American explorer and medical officer
See also
[edit]- Elishah, a person in the biblical book of Genesis
- Elisa (given name)